VM: You’re in the Fuento-Alamo part of Jumilla, which you say is ‘like a small Tuscany’. Paint a picture for us.
CC: It’s very hilly, there are a lot of small hills. It’s full of pine trees, rosemary, thyme, lavender. And the soil is completely white, like a Caribbean beach, it’s full of white stones, fossils, we have a lot of shells, oysters. And there are a lot of vineyards in Fuento-Alamo, around 1,600 hectares.
VM: Your grandfathers used to make wine at home in amphorae and exchange it in Valencia for citrus fruit. What did they think of your wine?
CC: My grandpa [back in the day] was hired by the cooperative of Fuento-Alamo and started to forget a bit about his own production but he kept the vineyards which came to my father’s generation – the third generation. But my parents were known as the hippies of the village because they started growing organically back in the 80s or 90s, they were the second ones certified organic in Spain. So my parents reopened the family winemaking business in 2002 and started making wine again and also purchased some new vineyards. Now my brother, Juanjo, sister, Lucía, and I are the fourth generation and in 2011 we started to flirt with biodynamic practices – we’re now certified biodynamic. We believe our [refreshing] style of wine is an old-school style because we showed it to our grandfather before he passed away and he said, ‘This is like the wines that we used to make. You didn’t invent anything.’
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